THE "GOD" PARTY

The day is dark and cloudy; congress is back in Washington. We need government but we do not need these people. The American people have to start worrying about what diabolical plan the House of Representatives has aimed at making President Obama a one term president; someone should tell them it is his second term. I have struggled with what their strategy could entail. We already know they want to cut a tax, which cuts the nations income—of course, they what they mean is to cut corporate taxes, not yours. Some how, this is going to lead to balancing the nation’s budget.

The proposal since Republicans got control was to balance the budget by cutting budgets. Everyone knows that social spending budgets and corporate welfare budgets are no way near involves enough money to do that. There is more to it than that; they want to establish the economic elite as leaders of society; the Ayn Rand position; we want ours and to hell with you. Just like public schools, they can feel good about destroying public schools because while it many hurt most children it will not hurt their children. They are dead set against infrastructure spending because it would create jobs but involves spending. Just because everyone will benefit, which is why we pay taxes, makes no difference. They do not want the President to be in a position to take credit for doing anything good. In addition, they know the Bush tax cuts for the rich are what caused the problem but still claim they want more tax cut only because that puts them in a position of accusing the President of preventing them from lowering taxes. They want to do all of these things against a background of claiming they are the fiscally responsible party. As an overall strategy, none of this makes sense except it can all be explained by simple shameless corporate greed at the expense of the American working people.  

I listened to several news commentators this morning. Their theme was that President Obama broke his word, of course, they framed it as, “he lied”; he promised to do something because congress has done nothing. This created a scenario to criticize him; no one knows what he will do, so cannot criticize him on content only that the press want him to do something now and he wants to wait. They also know that the immigration problem exists because congress has done nothing. They also know that congress is back in session. It should be obvious they (the media) do not expect congress to act and if they did what ever they do, they would do it to hurt Latinos, who among the people who are complaining the loudest—Republicans control Congress and they perceive all Latinos are Democrats; by the way, this logically implies Senators Cruz and Rubio are Democrats.

What makes sense is that the Republican controlled Congress has the perfect scenario. They have found a way to do nothing but hurt the country and have the media blaming the President and Democrats for their faults. The most vocal group on immigration are Latinos, and the only voice they have supporting them in Washington is the President’s; who do they attack. You guessed it. They attack the President. It makes no sense.

The only way any of this makes sense is if it has a mystical religious quality about it. A terrible accident happened and everyone in the car was dead except for an infant. All the people gathered around the wreckage containing the dead bodies and collectively had this common thought; thank “God” for sparing the baby. As Americans, all we have to do now is figure out how it is that the Republican Party became some sort of “God” that can do not wrong in American politics; it can do no wrong even when stand amid the Republican wreckage scattered round for all to see. I live in North Carolina so the Republican wreckage may be more obvious to us than it is in some states but it is there in the entire United States from shore to shore. We have it all: environmental pollution, shift of tax burden to the workers, destruction labor unions, trashing of public schools, ignoring climate change, Republican control of all state regulatory agencies, voter suppression, and control of courts to name a few. I would guess the people of the State either love standing among this wreckage or cannot see it because it appears they are going to vote Republican again. Can anyone explain that? 

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